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The Museum opened to the public in 1970 with one room of displays in an old armory building on Phoenix [2] Street. The museum moved in 1982 to the current facility at 106 Main Street, next to the Greenwood Theatre and former Federal Post Office. In 2000 the Railroad Historical Center donated its equipment and railway memorabilia to The Museum ...
Rockton and Rion Railroad Historic District is a national historic district located near Winnsboro, Fairfield County, South Carolina, United States.The district encompasses forty contributing buildings, six contributing structures, and two contributing objects associated with the quarrying, finishing, and transporting of Winnsboro blue granite.
website, includes Rockton, Rion and Western Railroad heritage steam train ride, display of railroad cars and artifacts South Carolina State Museum: Columbia: Richland: Midlands: Multiple: Exhibits include art, history, natural history, science and technology South Carolina Tennis Hall of Fame: Belton: Anderson: Upcountry: Sports: Located in the ...
December 6, 1984 (South Carolina Highway 215: Winnsboro: 21: Little River Baptist Church: Little River Baptist Church: April 13, 1972 (3.8 miles north of Jenkinsville on South Carolina Highway 213
North of Greenwood at the junction of South Carolina Highways 246 and 254 34°16′29″N 82°13′03″W / 34.274722°N 82.2175°W / 34.274722; -82.2175 ( Old Cokesbury and Masonic Female College and Conference
The Chester, Greenwood and Abbeville Railroad was Chartered by the South Carolina General Assembly in 1885. [1] A year later, the company's name was changed to the Georgia, Carolina and Northern Railway. The goal was to construct a line from Monroe, North Carolina, to Atlanta, Georgia. [2] Construction on the line began in 1887 in North ...
The Greenwood, Laurens and Spartanburg Railroad was a South Carolina railroad company begun after Reconstruction. The Greenwood, Laurens and Spartanburg was chartered by the South Carolina General Assembly in 1880. [1] In 1884 the Central Railroad of Georgia purchased the Greenwood, Laurens and Spartanburg prior to the route being completed. [2]
The Rockton and Rion Railway was a Class III railroad operating freight service in Fairfield County, South Carolina until its abandonment in 1981. The railroad's entire 12-mile right-of-way is now owned by the South Carolina Railroad Museum, which rebuilt some of the railroad and currently operates on 5 miles of the line.